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Data Science Virtual Machine - Windows 2012

Microsoft

Virtual machine with tools for the data science modeling and development

This is the Data Science Virtual Machine - Windows Server 2012 edition and contains popular tools for data exploration, modeling and development activities. The main tools included are Microsoft R Server Developer Edition (An enterprise ready scalable R framework), Anaconda Python distribution, Julia Pro developer edition, Jupyter notebooks for R, Python and Julia, Visual Studio Community Edition with Python, R and node.js tools, Power BI desktop, SQL Server 2016 Developer edition including support In-Database analytics using Microsoft R Server. It also includes open source deep learning tools like Microsoft Cognitive Toolkit (CNTK 2.0) and mxnet; ML algorithms like xgboost, Vowpal Wabbit. The Azure SDK and libraries on the VM allows you to build your applications using various services in the cloud that are part of the Cortana Analytics Suite which includes Azure Machine Learning, Azure data factory, Stream Analytics and SQL Datawarehouse, Hadoop, Data Lake, Spark and more. You can deploy models as web services in the cloud on Azure Machine Learning OR deploy them either on the cloud or on-premises using the Microsoft R Server operationalization.